Bungacast
The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Politics is back but it’s stranger than ever: join us as we chart a course beyond the age of ’bunga bunga’. Interviews, long-form discussions, docu-series.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
/123/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (2) ft. Nicholas Kiersey
In the second in an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nicholas Kiersey, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in Texas and host of the Full…
Excerpt: /122/ TFW NO GF
We discuss the new documentary TFW NO GF, which focuses on the lives o…
UNLOCKED /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair? ft. Anton Jäger
/121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins
On The Jakarta Method.
We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The …
Excerpt: /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair ft. Anton Jäger
Excerpt: /119/ Reading Club: Digital Socialism
On whether new tech can help build decentralised socialism.
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We discuss Evgeny Morozov's New Left Review essay, Digital Socia…
Excerpt: /118/ Three Articles: Covid
/117/ Against The Virus ft. John McAfee
On freedom in coronavirus times.
John McAfee joins us to address the lockdown, privacy and armed insurrection. Plus: why he prefers Fidel to Che, and how it came to be that his US presidential campa…
/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (1) ft. Nick Frayn
In the first of an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nick Frayn, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in New England. How have things gone…
Excerpt: /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
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Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why…
Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
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On the end of the Age of Imitation.
We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning…
/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
On global cities.
Global cities flaunt themselves to global capital and are shaped by it. They are self-conscious and eager to transmit 'globalness'. But why? And how has the city under globalisati…
Excerpt: /112/ Ideologies of the Near Future
On political conflict over the next decade
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We debate what ideological contestation is going to look like in the next 2/5/10 years. Wil…
/111/ Big Money Talk: The Case for MMT ft. Bill Mitchell
Excerpt: /110/ Three Articles: De-democratising
In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it.
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Readings:
/109/ Bunga Goes Ballard ft. Simon Sellars
On Applied Ballardianism.
Is it J.G. Ballard's world? Bunga talks Ballard with Simon Sellars, author of a new book on the great British sci-fi novelist J.G. Ballard. Urban decay, social breakdown, co…
/108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
On pandemics, panics, and China.
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidem…
/107/ Ireland’s Return to History ft. Colin Coulter
On Ireland's elections.
With Sinn Fein riding high in the polls, are we looking at an upset? Is this a populist upsurge in Ireland, finally, more than a decade after the start of the crisis? We discu…
Excerpt: /106/ The Endless Scrolling of Cinema ft. Maren Thom
On film in 2019/20. This is a sample only. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/BungaCast We saw yet more sequilitis the past year, the endlessness and onwardness of contemporary cinem…
Excerpt: /105/ The Lorax & the AK-47 ft. Leigh Phillips
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On ecofascism.
Both the shooters in the Christchurch and El Paso massacres were declared 'ecofascists'. Now, a new governing…